This isn’t a good hockey team right now. Things can change, but as of right now, they’re at best a middle of the road club.
That’s how I closed my recap earlier this week after the Detroit game, in which the Jackets allowed a couple of bad goals, came back to tie the game at 3-3 only to let at least a point slip through their fingers in the closing minutes of the contents.
Tonight, I’m eating my words, because the Columbus Blue Jackets looked like the team many thought they’d be prior to the start of the season; the offense finished chances, the defense stood on it’s head, Sergei Bobrovsky looked like a Vezina candidate and Columbus starts their California swing with a 4-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks.